Summary

As the old saying goes, it's hard to serve two masters. Three Chinese researchers at New York University were charged last week with taking bribes from a company and a government-funded lab in China. One of them was also accused of falsifying records in an application for a $3 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. But many in the Chinese scientific community think that the three scientists may instead be guilty of a lesser offense of foolishly trying to two-time their employer.